ABOUT THE WORKSHOP RETREAT Join us July 23-26 for a creative intensive in Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron. In this immersive three-day workshop, participants will explore indigo through its many transformations from plant to pigment to vat. Working across multiple processes, students will gain a layered understanding of how indigo shifts in form, behavior, and color over time. Through guided demonstrations and hands-on practice, the workshop will begin with fresh leaf dyeing, focusing on how to coax vibrant color directly from recently harvested indigo. Participants will then move into small-scale pigment extraction, learning how indigo is processed, developed, and prepared for use. The final portion of the workshop will center on building and maintaining natural dye vats, with attention to reduction, oxidation, and the ongoing care required to sustain a living system. Throughout the experience, indigo will be situated within broader contexts of agricultural practice, material science, and cultural lineage. Participants will engage with the rhythms and variables that shape the dye process, developing both technical skill and a deeper relationship to the material. By the end of the workshop, participants will have created a range of dyed samples, gathered practical knowledge for working with indigo at home, and developed the confidence to continue exploring its rich and varied possibilities. REGISTER HERE ABOUT Keisha Cameron Keisha Cameron is an artist, farmer, and cultural seedkeeper based at High Hog Farm, just outside of Atlanta. Raised in upstate New York in a family rooted in education, faith, and public service, her work centers on the relationships between land, culture, and community. Working at the intersection of land stewardship and cultural memory, Cameron is a natural dyer, fiber artist, and shepherdess. Through plant-based dyes, wool, and agrarian arts, she explores making as an extension of ecological care and ancestral practice. Alongside her family, she raises food and fiber, tends sheep and small livestock, cultivates dye plants, and stewards land with a focus on soil health, biodiversity, and long-term resilience. She received her Permaculture Design Certification in 2013, a turning point that deepened her engagement with agroecology, regenerative systems, and Indigenous land and foodways. Her work is grounded in a commitment to Black agrarian history, food sovereignty, and the reclamation of land-based lifeways disrupted by displacement and extraction. Cameron’s path to farming was shaped by earlier work in intercultural education, refugee resettlement, and arts-based community practice. She is the founder of The Exchange and previously co-led a creative studio focused on storytelling, design, and community engagement—experiences that continue to inform her approach to teaching and program design. At High Hog Farm, she facilitates workshops, intensives, and gatherings centered on agrarian arts, fiber systems, natu...
